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Aussie coppers blame Apple for road deaths
AUSSIE COPPERS are saying that shiny toys from Apple are responsible for a sudden spike in the number of road traffic deaths down under.
Apparently once people strap on an Ipod they are turned into zombies who stumble around the streets falling under cars. The last thing many of them hear is the strains of Coldplay ringing in their ears, which must be a terrible way to go.
According to The Age, the issue was bought into he public eye by the death of a 46-year-old Glebe woman who failed to hear an ambulance and walked in front of it.
Coppers point out that the number of people killed on Australian roads had dropped, but the number of pedestrian deaths has climbed by 25 per cent.
The suggestion is that these are Apple fanbois who are leaving the gene pool due to Darwinian self-selection. Not that Apple fanbois breed anyway.
The phenomena has been dubbed 'Death by Ipod' and they think it is relatively new so it might be slow in showing up because it can sometimes be a year between the fatality and the coroner's finding.
In Oz distracted pedestrians who cause accidents are liable for a $100 fine and face jail on more serious charges. However coppers have been slow to fine the Apple fanbois, especially the ones who have died.
The Australian Pedestrian Council has launched a "lambs to the slaughter - wait for the green" campaign featuring pedestrians wearing sheep heads and listening to mobile phones and Ipods.
This clearly will not work as many Apple fanbois will just think it is an advertisement for the next generation Ipod and will form an orderly queue outside the nearest Apple store. µ
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Pity you don't read the article you quote.
1. The victim was a 46 year old woman - hardly a kid
2. The report says she was wearing head-phones - could have been anything from a 30 yr old Walkman to a mobile phone
3. The research quoted was based on deaths in USA & Europe, not Australia.
I guess you can't resist attributing any bad effects from any sort of mobile gadget to Apple, and the evil Steve Jobs.
T boning another car in a car park would make you a bit of a dick.
Hope you've given up driving.
There's enough morons walking about, we don't need them driving as well :)
Replace "iPod" with "Walkman".
Replace "2010" with (say) "1981".
Publish your diatribe in analogue format, using ink and paper.
We've heard all this before. Only the names change. Careless people are the problem, not the manufacturers of the devices, be they iRiver, Creative, Philips, Sony, Apple et al.
Rather than making a smug 'fanboi' piece out of this, why not explain how normal human beings manage to get themselves killed by carelessness.
A number of years ago I managed to t-bone another car with mine in a carpark. I was wearing headphones at the time, plugged into a CD player. Of course that makes me both careless and a CD fanboi. Yeah...
I have another thing to say.
Apple is an overrated (and sometimes life threatening :s ) Toyshop.
I have only one thing to say. Nick Farrell you complete Fking moron.
Riding a motorbike through town in rush hour is a nightmare because of these retards.
Careful what you might wish for...the inq does a clever job of not slating Apple directly, or blatantly lying about it. But it's a fine line, and so far, they've yet to say anything which will land them in court.
It merely slags off the end user group who are "fair game".
It would not surprise me if Apple were just waiting for inq to slip up. They'll be watching Nick and Lawrence carefully...
Sorry, don't have an app for that
You should publish a book with this stuff!
the very sad day St.Steve will ask his holy partners to shut down this website, i will kill myself ...
Aren't Killer Applications required to drive adoption of any device?
I have been IRoaded.
last para - real killer!